What Would You Be Using?

[woodbj]

What distro would you be using if ubuntu ceased development or just didn't exist?

I think i would be using either Fedora or Mandriva

[.Maleficus.]

I would continue using Arch.

[capnthommo]

oh, no question about it. straight back to vista as fast as my little legs would carry me! ;)
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nigel

actually i'm not sure what i would use - it's like having to decide who to marry instead if my wife disappeared.

[hyperdude111]

I would use either debian or another debian based distro, i prefer the .deb package and apt to any other.

[collinp]

I would probably use either ArchLinux or Fedora... not sure which.

[gnomeuser]

I don't use Ubuntu anymore, but openSUSE seems to be doing interesting things and unlike Fedora it's not overly political.

[powerpleb]

I'd probably go back to either Arch or Debian. But it would depend on how 'bleeding edge' I was feeling that day.

[comandrei]

Debian, obviously. :roll:

[Hybrid-photog]

For me, I'd jump to Debian, or maybe consider Gentoo.

I couldn't return to Mandriva... no no.

[jelle_]

openSUSE

[The Toxic Mite]

Well, surely, if Ubuntu was no longer being developed, the community could at least keep the repositories open so that they still get the necessary updates and all. :)

Although I do like Ubuntu, I would probably go for CentOS, openSUSE, Fedora or Mandriva should Ubuntu not be developed anymore AND the repositories shut down.

[k2t0f12d]

I'd either use Archlinux or roll my own. In fact, I'm doing both of these things right now. :P

[bakedbeans4life]

Windows 7, then 8, then 9...isn't it obvious?

That bunch of hippies knows nowt.

[TheIdiotThatIsMe]

Debian. Just recently switched anyways, although I love them both, for very different reasons.

[Giant Speck]

Hmm... this is an interesting question.

If Ubuntu had not existed at the time I started using it, I probably would have continued using Windows Vista, considering Ubuntu was the first distro I used.

Now, if Ubuntu were to halt or cease development, I'd probably have to try a whole bunch of distros before I finally got comfortable with one.

[fifth]

No specific distro, but I would go with a Debian based rolling release.

I've considered this move before but I do like Ubuntu, and decided to stick with it and enjoy the dist-upgrades for Alpha testing :D

[gymophett]

Crunchbang or Arch.
Fedora, Mandriva, or OpenSUSE.